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An appellate court has dismissed a former Northern Territory officer’s attempt to avoid testifying before the coronial inquest into the death of the teenager he shot in 2019.
Zachary Rolfe, who killed Kumanjayi Walker in his remote home of Yuendumu during a botched arrest, was of the Walrpiri man’s murder by a jury last year.
The subsequent coronial inquiry has been able to examine material that was deemed inadmissible to the court trial, including to colleagues and friends.
Rolfe appeared before the inquest in November last year, .
He lodged an appeal, his third and final, against appearing before the inquest in April this year, but in a decision handed down by the territory’s Supreme Court on Wednesday, his legal team’s arguments were rejected.
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